Art of family hood

Hi reader,      During the Enlightenment age, one work that shocked the world was Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica and that work provided people with scientific reasoning for how the world works. Once people started to find reason in the world, even more people continued to find discoveries and inventions in the world. Originally when Newton first published his book, many people were skeptical of his finds because many people believed in the churches and the idea of the “will of God.” As time goes on, people started to know that Newton was correct with his finds and people praised his findings. One of Newton's most famous quotes was, “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth,” and he is pushing for the people to listen to the truth and not believe what other people are saying to them  ( Source ). B oth Newton and Aristotle, a famous philosopher, most likely talked a lot to each other, but Newton kept going back to the idea ...

 Hi reader, Image:  Voltaire, Bronze by Jean-Antoine Houdon;  Source Britannica The Enlightenment age was from about 1715 to 1789 and started when people began to  question traditional authority, like religion, and thought things could change rational and logically. The period was taken over by scientific and philosophical discoveries, which ultimately impacted the art and literature in that time period and future periods. M y infographic talks about the main takeaways from this time period and the impacts it had:  infographic

 Hi reader, This is a brainstorm for my overarching art's project. Overarching theme/idea: Struggles of being black and being united with other people with hardships. This creates the idea of family hood between them. P arts from the mission statement: The issue of people still not being treated equally currently, because of other’s races, or gender. Many of these people promoted these issues to be solved in the past but found little to no progress in their goal. Today, many black people all over the world, including Americans, are being treated unequally and many of them have died from this power difference. Many people are looking in the past and noticing all these artists pushing for change and nothing happened. So now people are making sure this current string of “incidents” will not go unnoticed and making a change will happen. A good portion of art created by these artists happened from an incident happening, and their art is an effect of inequality incidents happening. ...

Hi reader,      The work that I will be focusing on will be on the song/rap, Alright , by Kendrick Lamar and he talks about his life through his music. I choose his work because he was on the first artist, since NWA, to preach the Black Lives Matter movement and many people used this song in many protests. He talks about his life through his music and talks about the “po-po” or the police trying to “kill us dead in the street for sure,” and he fought “all [his] life” and says to the people that “we gon’ be alright.” These lines are important in his rap because he talks about his experiences in his life, and he is addressing himself and other people in the same situation as it will be “alright.” Source: Vulture Image: Kendrick Lamar in his music video Alright      The rap, Alright, paved the for people to play music while protesting and a path for other artists to talk about the Black Lives Movement in their songs and albums. From the article, We Are Not ‘Al...

Hi reader, The idea of a “growth mindset” was an idea that was taught in high school and was told to be “hunger” to learn and to problem solve. From the TED talk, The power of Believing That You Can Improve , by Carol Dweck says more schools should follow how Chicago schools grade non-passing students. The Chicago schools give failing students the grade on “not yet,” and she says that gives the students that they are on a learning curve and not a downward curve. This will allow students to have a growth mindset and will be able to think that they will be able to pass the course at a later date. I remember from my physics class we used a system where people had many opportunities to master a “learning target,” and this allowed students, including me, to continue to learn the material and master that learning concept. Another concept to a growth mindset, addressed by Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Ann Arnold in A fixed mindset could be holding you back — here's how to change it , they stated...

 Hi reader,       The writer of  How music shapes the way we play video games,  Kellen Beck, started their writing piece with a quote to grabs the reader’s attention. He quoted by a video game composer Grant Kirkhope saying, that images “tell the story, but the music tells you how to feel,” and especially grabbed my attention to want to read more. He continues to grab the reader to continue reading by using a popular movie, like Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as evidence for this point. He talks about how the ending of that movie about has been “flat” and all of the drama is gone from the absence of music. This supports his thesis of music changes how a game feels and how people remember the game, or this case a movie, in the future. Great music productions will be remembered for a very long time, and that is what the author says throughout his writing piece.      In another writing piece,  Inside His DNA: How Kendrick Lamar Makes...

 Hi reader,  My past experiences of giving feedback usually start with saying 2-3 good decisions the writer did and to start positive. Then the next couple of notes I would say would be about decisions that the writer could improve on or could change. This would give the writer a different approach in their writing, and they would choose to accept or reject that suggestion. Similar to how Alfie Kohn said in his piece,  Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!",  I would say to the writer that “I like the way you” did a certain thing, and Kohn says that isn’t the best thing to do. He has that “our decisions about what’s good and bad” impact people not learning from their judgment and seek other's approval to see if they work is good or not. I feel confident about giving people useful feedback because I will say one to two sentences of positive about the writer’s work, including their process, and praising their style of writing. Then, I will heavily focus on what the wr...

 Hi reader,      Two bottles. Drinking. It is all fun and games until someone loses their life. That is one of the main reasons why I do not drink. I have lost too many people to alcohol. One of the closest people I have lost was my grandfather. Before I was even born, I was told my grandfather was an alcoholic and after I was born, he started to stop drinking. My family and I lost him about five years later with a heart related death and one of the main causes of that was alcohol and high cholesterol. This was my first experience of death, as a six year old, really hit me in my roots and the lesson of not to drink alcohol has really stuck with me. Even with other people drinking near me and having a great time doing it, either family or friends, I have never had the need to get a drink or want to get drunk to have a good time. Since I do not drink, even though I am not allowed to, I persevere past friends peer pressuring me to drink, so that I can “fit in with the c...